Comments on: Dismay as plans advance to remove wild horses in Albertahttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/
equine news, research, and informationFri, 09 Dec 2016 14:56:52 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Doughttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57215
Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:52:20 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57215In Australia wild horses are shot from helicopters and left where they fall. We all may love or admire horses but in some instances they become pests. Grow up horses (especially wild ones) have to be periodically culled to keep numbers to a manageable level and for herd health – Its called genetics.
]]>By: Letty Graysonhttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57172
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:34:06 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57172We certainly have major problems to overcome here in the US. The US SAFE Act, if approved, will be a major step, but the plight in Alberta convinces me that Canadian politicians are DESPICABLE! regarding this issue.
]]>By: gordon beckhttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57167
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:57:50 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57167Correction. About 1650 there were already herds of wild horses descendants of those brought over in the 1500’s by Spaniards.
]]>By: Gloria Kerseyhttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57161
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 23:02:58 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57161So very sad for Canada’s horses. We are having the same issues here with our wild mustangs being run down and penned up by the the cruel BLM! Seems half the world is killing horses! Makes me so sad and angry!
]]>By: Marilyn Wilsonhttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57158
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:39:04 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57158How true Victoria! We’re facing the same here in the US. They’re forcing us to use civil dis-obedience.
]]>By: tawnya bradley-wilsonhttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57157
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:37:34 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57157Where is the petition to stop this cruelty.
]]>By: Victoriahttp://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2014/02/01/dismay-plans-advance-remove-wild-horses-alberta/#comment-57155
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:11:38 +0000http://horsetalk.co.nz/?p=48293#comment-57155Thank-you so much for covering this in my home country of New Zealand, from where I live now in Alberta, Canada.

The argument is these horses are not ‘native’ — or they would be treated differently. However, they have lived on the prairie and foothill plains for over 100 years – which, I think, deserves some respect.

To see this in “Cowboy Country”, where horses are a way of life, is hypocritical to say the least. Calgary’s football team is “The Stampeders” with a horse as their emblem; we have “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” during Calgary Stampede… And this is the way we treat them?f

Another argument is they have no natural predators. Well, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to tangle with the cougars and wolves cohabitating that area. (Mind you, we’d have more wolves if the Alberta Redford Govt. didn’t just indiscriminately kill them too.)

The mortality rates of our wild herds are higher due to the huge flood in June, and a couple of harsh winters. This winter, there’s so much snow they can’t get through it without struggling, and food is scarce. But the govt won’t listen to WHOA, who watches these herds closely and knows more than they ever will.

But, it’s the way our Canadian Govt. is going… To hell with everything, even if it means destroying our own wildlife & environment for the sake of shipping resources to some ‘other’ country.

Canada is not the country we moved to, and this bewildered nation is barely recognizable anymore.